Ash tray



June 18, 1940. M. .1. MILLER 2,205,377

ASH TRAY Filed Jan. 27, 1939 Invntor if, m zz A iiome Patented June 18, 1940 ASH TRAY Michael J. Miller, Ashtabula, om, assignor to The Dun-Mil Products, Inc., Painesville, Ohio Application January 21, 1939, Serial No. 253,178

1 Claim. .(CI. 131-232) My invention relates generally to improvements in ash trays and involves a trough for holding a smoking pipe in erect positions, means facilitating non-injurious knocking-out of the contents of a smoking pipe by striking the pipe manually thereagainst, convenient means for mounting a match box, and convenient match scratching means, and an important object of my invention is to provide a simple and efflcient and practical arrangement of this character which is relatively inexpensive to manufacture.

Other important objects and advantages of my invention will be apparent from a reading of the following description taken in connection with the drawing, wherein for purposes of illustration I have set forth the'preferred embodiment of my invention.

In the drawing- Figure 1 is a general top plan view of the embodiment, showing in dotted lines a smoking pipe supported in the trough in an erect position.

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken through Figure 1 approximately on the line 22 and looking upwardly in the direction of the arrows, and showing in dotted lines a smoking pipe support by the trough.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary transverse vertical sectional view taken through Figure 1 approximately on the line 3-3 and looking upwardly in thedirection of the arrows to show the mounting of a conventional match box thereon.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral 5 generally designates the ashtray which is saucer-shaped in shape and contour, the body thereof being characterized by the present in circumferentially spaced relation to the rounded head 6 on the peripheral upper, edge of the body, of a concentric wall I which deflneswith the outer wall 8 a substantially V-shaped trough 9,

the inner side of the wall 1 being slanted as in-' dicated by the numeral Hi to provide the frustoconical receptacle II. A bead I2 is provided at the lower end of the outer wall 8 and on the bottom of the body is a plate 13 of rubber or felt for out at intervals to provide the apertures l5 at substantially equally circumferentially spaced inquarter cylindrical opening II to receive and support a cigarette with its burning end within the receptacle II. The apertures l5 are filled with bodies of cork or the like III which conform in contour to the rounded upper end ll of the inner wall, and these provide non-injurious knocking blocks against which a smoking pipe is to be struck for removing the contents of the bowl thereof into the receptacle I'I. One or more of the openings l 5 and the knocking block IBpertaining thereto, is provided with a .pair of slots I9, 20 spaced to receive the opposite small sides of the rectangular tube 2|.

of a conventional match box 22 which includes the slidable tray 23 as illustrated in Figure 3 of the drawing, the inner wall I being of such a width as to be easily received within the lower end of the tube of the match box, whereby the match box is mounted on the inner wall 'I in an erect position with the tray thereof sufflciently elevated to expose the matches (not shown) therein for use. A circumferential band 24 of roughened character is disposed around the inner surface III of the wall 'I in a position slightly below the lower end of the apertures 15 to provide a safety match scraching surface located in such a positionthat should the head ofa match explode and heated particles thereof be thrown off, the same will be trapped by the side wall I.

Although I have shown and described herein a preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to be definitely understood that I do not desire to limit the application of my invention thereto, and any change or changes may be made in the materials and in the structure and arrangement of the parts, withinthe spirit of the invention and the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

An ash tray comprising a body part formed of a single piece of material and including a substantially flat bottom part of annular form, an

upwardly and outwardly extending annular part connected with the peripheral portion of the bottom part and having a bead at its upper edge and a substantially vertically arranged annular part extending upwardly from the bottom part and forming with the first-mentioned upwardly and outwardly extending part an annular trough having an inner wall substantially vertically arthe arranged part transverse notches therein for receiving cigarettes with portlons of the cigarettes extending the trough and other poi tlone extending over the space formed by the vertically arranged annular part. 5

MICHAEL J. MIILER. 

